Yifan Guo

Assistant Professor

Name

Contact Info

Phone:
410-704-5439
Office:
7800 York Road (YR), Room 436
Email:
yguo@towson.edu
Hours:
Mon./Wed., 4-5 p.m.
Thurs., 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Education

Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2022

M.S., Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2015

B.S., Information and Computing Sciences, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2013

Areas of Expertise

Privacy and Security Issues in Federated Learning

Trustworthy Deep Learning

Edge Intelligence

AI for Cybersecurity Applications

Biography

Yifan Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University (TU) since August 2022. Before joining TU, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Sciences from Case Western Reserve University under the supervision of Dr. Pan Li in 2022, his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 2015, and his B.S. degree in Information and Computing Sciences from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2013.

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Yifan Guo, Qianlong Wang, Tianxi Ji, and Pan Li, “Resisting Distributed Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning: A Dynamic Norm Clipping Approach,” the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData’21), December 15-18, 2021.
  • Yifan Guo, Lixing Yu, Qianlong Wang, Tianxi Ji, Yuguang Fang, Jin Wei-Kocsis, and Pan Li, “Weak Signal Detection in 5G+ Systems: A Distributed Deep Learning Framework,” the Twenty-Second ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc’21), Shanghai, China, July 26-29, 2021.
  • Tianxi Ji, Yifan Guo, Qianlong Wang, Xufei Wang, and Pan Li. "ECONOMY: Point Clouds-based Energy-efficient Autonomous Navigation for UAVs." IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 8, no. 4 (2021): 2885-2896.
  • Lixing Yu, Ming Li, Wenqiang Jin, Yifan Guo, Qianlong Wang, Feng Yan, and Pan Li, “STEP: A Spatio-Temporal Fine-Granular User Traffic Prediction System for Cellular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 20, no. 12 (2020): 3453-3466.
  • Yifan Guo, Tianxi Ji, Qianlong Wang, Lixing Yu, Geyong Min, and Pan Li, “Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in IoT Systems for Smart Cities,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 2231-2242, Oct. 2020.
  • Qianlong Wang, Yifan Guo, Xufei Wang, Tianxi Ji, Lixing Yu, and Pan Li, “AI at the Edge: Blockchain-Empowered Secure Multiparty Learning with Heterogeneous Models,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 9600-9610, Oct. 2020.
  • Yifan Guo, Tianxi Ji, Qianlong Wang, Lixing Yu, and Pan Li, “Quantized Adversarial Training: An Iterative Quantized Local Search Approach,” the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’19), Beijing, China, November 8-11, 2019.
  • Yifan Guo, Weixian Liao, Qianlong Wang, Lixing Yu, Tianxi Ji, and Pan Li, “Multidimensional Time Series Anomaly Detection: A GRU-based Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoder Approach,” the 10th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML’18), Beijing, China, November 14-16, 2018.